Aid duo: Jacko, R. Kelly
Michael Jackson finally has found someone else to join him on his all-star charity song to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. The irony is it’s rapper R. Kelly, who still is fighting child-pornography charges, rollingstone.com reported. We’re guessing they could swap some swell courtroom stories. Ciara is also onboard.
Hoo-blah! Pacino laments acting slump
Al Pacino admits he has been in an acting slump for the past 30 years. Pacino, 65, told Playboy magazine, “I know I haven’t made a good film since ‘Dog Day Afternoon.’ Somebody at a press conference once asked me, ‘Do you think you’ll ever be as good as you were in ‘Dog Day,’ and I said flatly, ‘No.”‘
Guess Al forgot about his Oscar-winning performance in “Scent of a Woman” in 1992.
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A 1978 Range Rover Prince Charles drove on his honeymoon with Princess Diana is back on sale on eBay, the New York Post reported. Tarquin Coe bought the car a year ago for $5,000 but yanked the vehicle, which Charles allegedly used for a bawdy rendezvous with Camilla Parker Bowles, off the auction site after July’s London terror attacks. Charles has pledged 5 percent of the final sale price to one of Diana’s pet cancer charities.
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Lizzie Jennings is running in today’s New York City Marathon in honor of her father, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, who died of cancer Aug. 7. “I’ve always been a mediocre runner, certainly not a marathon runner,” Jennings, 26, told the New York Daily News’ Lloyd Grove, “and right before Dad died, I decided I wanted to do something to honor him and also to make him proud.”
Jennings and her team, PJ’s People, will run the 26.2-mile course to raise money for lung cancer research at a New York hospital.
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Tom Cruise insists on doing death-defying stunts on the shooting of “Mission: Impossible 3,” and he’s scaring the film’s stunt coordinator.
Vic Armstrong told Total Film magazine “(Cruise) did a 70-foot fall for us last week. He’s amazing. He did about seven takes. Absolutely terrifies me. I can see the headlines: ‘What a way to finish a career.”‘
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There may be many reasons for CNN’s decision to dump Aaron Brown and replace him with rising star Anderson Cooper. Here’s a few:
Changes begin Monday. “Anderson Cooper 360” expands to two hours and will air at 8 p.m. in Denver after “Larry King Live.” Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situation Room” runs two hours at 2 p.m. and one hour at 5 p.m. as part of the changes.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
